under the spotlight

Chapter 139 The Dowry
After a battle, Lu Beicen's work finally temporarily returned to normal.

The two versions of the script written by Lu Beicen only made minor adjustments, and Mr. Tang did not give any further instructions.But where she couldn't see, the channel leaders were all busy.

Mr. Yang took Mr. Qi to do work in the province, and Mr. Tang took Zheng Wei and Du Chengran to Qianyang. Such a large-scale national event must not be decided by Qianyang alone.

Lu Beicen returned to the state of finding a topic, was turning on the computer, and was browsing related websites, when Chen Fang suddenly stood behind her, lowered her voice and laughed softly: "Xiaolu, what else are you looking for? ? I heard that the leaders have hand-picked you, and they are making big moves recently."

Lu Beicen quickly ran through his mind. Mr. Tang had told him that the matter of Qianyang was only in the stage of fighting for it. No matter whether it was news or manuscripts, it should not be spread outside. Chen Fang didn't know where this news came from. More is also a cliché.

"Ah, no, Mr. Chen, don't laugh at me, I don't have any rice to cook here." Lu Beicen shook his head quickly.

Seeing that Lu Beicen didn't pick up the quarrel, Chen Fang bypassed the topic first, and threw out an olive branch: "I have a mediation topic that needs to be picked outside. If you're okay, we can cooperate."

Ever since Chen Fang made an inexplicable one last time, but when she heard that she could earn extra writing fees, she immediately became friendly. Lu Beicen was really reluctant to have too much contact with this person, and even instinctively took precautions. But he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Lu Beicen immediately smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, your topic selection is very good. It's okay for me to study with you. I'll do it alone. I'm afraid it would be bad if I mess up your topic." gone."

"Why are you and Sister Chen meeting each other like this? How about I tell you about this topic first, and see if you are interested." Chen Fang simply pulled a chair from the next door and sat down. Lu Beicen naturally didn't agree. If he refuses again, he can only passively prick up his ears.

"That's right. The clients who came to us for mediation are two families, all because of the same girl."

Chen Fang's appetizing manner was as usual. Lu Beicen only found it a little funny, but he tried his best to match her performance. There is a saying that it is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain. Lu Beicen feels that this sentence is very appropriate here.

"Ah, this girl was abducted by traffickers, and now the two families are arguing?" Lu Beicen used his imagination appropriately.

Chen Fang shook her head very proudly, and continued: "You see, this subject matter is very good from the beginning. In the past, our client was usually one person, but this time there are actually two families."

"Yeah, I don't have much experience, and I haven't noticed this yet. Mr. Chen, tell me what's going on." Lu Beicen perfectly put himself in the position of being a fan.

"Hehe, it's actually not a big deal, it's just that the two families are robbing their daughter-in-law."

"No way, what age is this, and there is still the matter of one daughter getting married twice."

Chen Fang seemed to be very satisfied with Lu Beicen's flattery, and shook her head: "You can't say that, in fact, there are still many backward places, and the concept is still very traditional. I told you that you don't believe me. You learn Chinese. You must know that matchmaking is a job, in fact, it still exists in villages and towns, and there are quite a few, this is where it came from."

This Lu Beicen knows a little bit about it. The official media organization started in China as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. In fact, it is an official marriage agency. Introduce marriages, and will also be responsible for matters such as remarriage of widowers and consolidation of property. The rights are still great.

Of course, there are also private media among the people, which are commonly known as matchmakers, but after being introduced by the private media, they still have to report to the official media, which is a bit like going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to obtain a marriage certificate. Without this step, the marriage is still invalid.

The official matchmaker in ancient times was actually equivalent to a small official in the yamen, and she held a lot of power. It was difficult for ordinary people to sit in this position. In addition to the inheritance between mother and daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, there are many ways.

Of course, this was in ancient times, and matchmakers in modern rural areas mostly relied on matchmaking rituals to make a living. Although Chen Fang's matter was cut from the matchmaker, it was actually the girl's mother who loved money more.

Chen Fang curled her lips: "This family has a daughter and a son. The couple couldn't find a place to go out to work because they didn't know a lot of characters, so they started a small job in the county. Later, when the daughter grew up, the couple agreed. My idea is that it doesn’t matter whether I study or not, the important thing is whether I can get married with a high-value gift, and this money can help my son find a wife.”

"There aren't many people who think like this these days, right?" Lu Beicen was a little surprised. Now he has nine years of compulsory education, except for those who are really poor. They can usually read good books, regardless of their sons or daughters. It's the pride of the whole family, who would stop it, especially if it's my parents.

Chen Fang smiled disapprovingly: "You may have grown up in the city and haven't seen many people and things like this. In fact, there are quite a few people who think this way. Some concepts have been deeply ingrained. How can you change it?" easy."

"Especially in many places, the bride price for marrying a daughter is very high. It feels like selling a daughter. They feel that they will not go back to their hometown to provide for them in the future after all the hard work. If you don’t even get the dowry, it’s a chicken-and-egg fight.”

"In the minds of these people, sooner or later, daughters will be people with a different surname, and no matter what time they are, they will follow their sons to take care of them. So if there is no son in the family, it is simply impossible to hold your head up."

"If you put it this way, isn't it true that my daughter dare not even leave the marriage, and even dare not return to her mother's house?" Lu Beicen really had a hard time understanding.

"If you can't live on, it's not Zhaoli, come back and find someone to marry. Anyway, those parents think like this. No matter whether a woman has children or not, no matter how old she is, and no matter whether she can support herself or not, marriage is the last home."

"I have filmed a case before. A daughter got married. After she divorced, her mother arranged a blind date to remarry. After two years, she divorced again. This time, she didn't want to get married again, but her mother was not happy and forced to arrange a blind date. She even helped create opportunities for her son-in-law, so her daughter had to marry again."

"But this daughter's personality and lifestyle are actually not suitable for marriage. Even after being married three times, she has not learned how to get along with husband and wife, and how to get along with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. In the end, she was so painful that she was disgusted by her mother-in-law. Flying dog jumps, she is not divorced, life can't go on, and finally one day in the middle of a quarrel, she stabbed her mother-in-law to death with a fruit knife..."

This made Lu Beicen a little surprised: "She doesn't have the ability to support herself, does she have to rely on her husband to support her?"

"No, she works as a beautician in a beauty salon, but she has that kind of personality. I can't even tell what kind of person she is. It's indescribable. Some people always say that the heavenly person is the heavenly person. Do you know how it feels? Anyway, communicate It’s very difficult, it’s always like a chicken talking to a duck, I interviewed this person for three hours, and in the end there were not many words that could be used during the same period.”

Chen Fang seemed to come to her senses suddenly, and patted her forehead: "Look at me, it's getting far away again, let's talk about this matter again. When the daughter of this family grew up, the mother asked a matchmaker to help matchmaking, and then first with the family We found a match, the dowry was over, and another matchmaker came to another family, and the dowry was [-] more than the original one."

"For 2 yuan, the mother felt that she had lost her daughter first. The mother didn't know what she was thinking. Anyway, she accepted a gift from another person. Then, under the direction of the mother, the daughter followed the instructions of the man on both sides. According to the requirements of the family, the first one is to consummate the house with a banquet, and the second one is to get a marriage certificate."

"But after that, the daughter made a big fuss in the two families because of a trivial matter, and then disappeared. I don't know whether the daughter was hidden by the mother, or what happened. Anyway, the mother first told both parties that the daughter If you are pregnant, you need nutrition to nourish your body, and you need to pay for nutrition. If you don’t take it, you must have an abortion within three months.”

"Later, it was said that my daughter had a miscarriage because she couldn't bear the stimulation, and now she was raising her health in the city, she was sad and didn't want to see people..."

The three families were in great trouble. Under such circumstances, both men's families knew that this family had betrothed a daughter to two families, and the scene was very embarrassing. I didn't know how many times they fought, but no matter how they fought, it would be resolved. No problem, then the bride's family simply couldn't find anyone.

The two families went to the local township court to sue. If they want to sue the girl’s family, they will either pay someone else or return the gift money. This gift money is not a small amount of money for any rural family, and some of it is a family’s life savings. , some savings are not enough to repay the debts, at this time it can be said that chickens fly and eggs are beaten, people and money are empty, can you not worry about getting angry?

The judges in this court were arguing with each other by these three families. The mother of the woman’s family was crying, making trouble and hanged herself, claiming that the man’s family was sorry for her daughter, and the whole family beat her, so she ran away in anger. , And said the second family, the second family is also not human, her daughter is pregnant, and beat her back to her mother's house.

The two men's families also have their own opinions. They all say that their own family is the first to talk about their relatives. One said that the wedding was held and the whole village testified. The key is that the case brought by this kind of gourd is not easy to reconcile with the mud, and the judge has never seen the daughter. The mother said that she was stimulated by confinement, and now she is almost depressed. Don't let her be stimulated again.

In the end, the judge gave the two men a trick and asked them to find the city channel of the TV station to help mediate, saying that there are a lot of capable people there, and they will definitely be able to understand this matter and give them an explanation.

Lu Beicen suddenly felt something was wrong: "Mr. Chen, did you talk to this girl on the phone?"

Chen Fang praised with admiration: "So you are suitable to eat this bowl of rice. The point of this matter is this girl, where is she? Is it like her mother said that she has a miscarriage and can't see people because of illness? It's hard to say, maybe there are other stories that can't be kept..."

"No way, you mean there is another house?" Lu Beicen asked in surprise.

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